Is anyone else puzzled and/or confused about the apparent goal of testing everyone for WuFlu - sorry, "novel coronavirus"? Why don't we do that for other viral infections?

Given the permeability of the nasal membranes and their relationship to the blood brain barrier (I'm not a medical professional, so this is speculative), it seems that shoving a swab up somebody's nose could just as easily introduce things into that environment as collect samples from them. I mean there's a reason a lot of drugs - notably inoculations, are done via nasal aerosols.

Not that I don't trust governments... though they do occasionally do things that cause me concern, like condoning rioting and anarchy, but why again are people everywhere waiting in lines for hours to be tested for an illness that for most people has no real consequence except for violating their civil rights for a few months, and maybe turning them into zombies or democrats?

The most benign explanation I can come up with for the supposed need for "universal testing" (rumored to be the precursor for mandatory "vaccinations") is to collect DNA samples. This has pretty obviously been somebody's goal for some time now, and one can only assume that it leads us back to that same "someone's" quest to create a master race... of useful idiots.